l) just
satisfaction.']

[Footnote 12: He consents--but immediately _re-sums_ the grounds of his
wrathful suspicion.]

[Footnote 13: --the way in which he met his death.]

[Footnote 14: --customary honours to the noble dead. _A trophy_ was an
arrangement of the armour and arms of the dead in a set decoration. The
origin of the word _hatchment_ shows its intent: it is a corruption of
_achievement_.]

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No Noble rite, nor formall ostentation,[1]
Cry to be heard, as 'twere from Heauen to Earth,
That I must call in question.[2] [Sidenote: call't in]

_King_. So you shall:
And where th'offence is, let the great Axe fall.
I pray you go with me.[3] _Exeunt_

_Enter Horatio, with an Attendant_. [Sidenote: _Horatio and others_.]

_Hora_. What are they that would speake with
me?

_Ser_. Saylors sir, they say they haue Letters
[_Gent_. Sea-faring men sir,]
for you.

_Hor_. Let them come in,[4]
I do not know from what part of the world
I should be greeted, if not from Lord _Hamlet_.

_Enter Saylor_. [Sidenote: _Saylers_.]

_Say_. God blesse you Sir.

_Hor_. Let him blesse thee too.

_Say_. Hee shall Sir, and't[5] please him. There's
[Sidenote: A shall sir and please]
a Letter for you Sir: It comes from th'Ambassadours
[Sidenote: it came fro th' Embassador]
that was bound for England, if your name
be _Horatio_, as I am let to know[6] it is.

_Reads the Letter_[7]

Horatio, _When thou shalt haue ouerlook'd this_,
[Sidenote: _Hor. Horatio_ when]
_giue these Fellowes some meanes to the King: They
haue Letters for him. Ere we were two dayes[8] old
at Sea, a Pyrate of very Warlicke appointment gaue
vs Chace. Finding our selues too slow of Saile, we
put on a compelled Valour. In the Grapple, I boarded_
[Sidenote: valour, and in the]
_them: On the instant they got cleare of our Shippe,
so I alone became their Prisoner.[9] They haue dealt
with mee, like Theeues of Mercy, but they knew what
they did. I am to doe a good turne for them. Let_
[Sidenote: a turne]
_the King have the Letters I haue sent, and repaire
thou to me with as much hast as thou wouldest flye_